The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1887-08-18
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.
COMMENTS ON TOPICS THAT ARE
ESTING THE PEOPLE.

The Views of Our Contemporaries on
Passing Public Events and Questions
OF Interest.
Let the State resolve to have a history.
Let the State resolve to have historian
Then let it appropriate annually such sum
is may suffice to reward the historian and
pay the expense of his researches. Let it
patiently await the deliberate progress of
the work. And unless the State does this
it Will never have history that will live
longer, as authority, than the most insig-
niticant weekly in the State Asheville
Citizen.
When it comes to crticizing a political
platform any man can rally to the scratch
and distinguish himself. 1t is one of the
well established axioms, which cannot be
cpntroverted, that constructive work is
very much more difficult than the work of
destruction. Any person, however de
ticient in intellect, can criticize. 1t is
very difficult task, however, to construct
a system of party government and belief
which is beyond criticism. This is worthy
An eminent statesman once remarked
that North Carolina could get along with
out the aid of outside assistance better
than any State III the Union. His remark
was occasioned by MS conversance with
her great variety Of soil, climate and other
natural advantages. His remark applies
With equal force TO Burke county. Apart
from all the cereals, she produces in her
grey gravelly uplauds the finest tobacco
In the world. Many Of her farmers raise
their oNn rice, while the finest cotton
grows on the southern rim Of the county.
- Morganton Blade
Tie fact is that the people do not for a
moment admit now that the tax, as at
present LAID, is right in principle" On
the contrary. they distinctly deny that it
j.. There is not a constituency in North
Carolina or Virginia in which a candidate
for Congress could be elected if it were
understood that he favored the continu-
auce of the present internal revenue tax.
Not only this, but the platforms Of the
i'tnoCIdllC parry III tHcSt lho Stdleo Cttll
Tor the repeal of the system. SO much for
the assertion that the Southern people
recognize the fact that the tax is right in
principle Wilmington Messenger.
When We come to consider the prev
aence Of crime we are batfied by mere
considerations of latitude. 1t is true that
in the great cities of the North, many
murders are committed. and under cir
cumstances which are most heinOus. But
latitude does not affect the murderous
instinct in mans heart. One day We
read of a triple murder by a drunken
wretch in New Jersey. The next day We
have tragedy in Georgia, which Involves
the lives Of nine persons. The fact of the
business is that murder is not sectional
crime, nor the absence of it a sectional
virtue What would be most commenda-
ble would be the prompt and adequate
punishment of it. In this respect the sec
t.ons would DO well to show more promp-
ttude and severity Wilmington Mes
~enger.
able and desirable thing; but it is not the
chief end of good farming. II a man, by
unnecessary self denial for him self or fam
ily, by parsiponious economy, Withholding
what might without detriment to himself
or family be given in charity, or sustain
the many institutions which are not sus-
Jined by taxation, boards little wealth
and negects the public welfare and his
own enjoyment, he does himself an injury.
and deprives his family Of judicious recre-
atoms and enjoyments of life. 10 ac-
cumuLate a large amount of money IS not
The only way in which a farmer can be
yyell paid for persistent efforts to succeed.
a farmer may receive REMUNERATION Tor
Ills farming in other ways than in cash.
Elizabeth City North Carolinian.
- far as legislation is concerned, the
farmer need not look there for any remedy
for the evils which now trouble him.
Neither an Act Of the Legislature, nor the
big worthless volume of laws which that
very quizzical body has issued. contains
nor ever will, any panacea for agricultural
Ills. Yet there is some legislation to be
made in the interest of farmers, and that
is in relieving them of onerous and unjust
taxation: for they are certainly worse roo
bed than any other class of people, IN the
way of taxation. There are great many
wild and ry schemes put forth to feather
the nests of few, that ought to be aban-
doned Whenever the pruning knife is
put into the hands of competent and euer'
getic men who know and dare to do their
duty, there will be such looping OF OF
taxes as very sensibly to relieve the pres
ent burdens that weight down the tollers.
But organization and combination among
the farmers have come, and are coming
late it is true; but better late than never.
NoiseIessly they have sprung up, and are
springng up all over the country dur
ham Recorder.
A successful grape show was recently
held at Raleigh; those interested IN tobac
co held a convention at Morehead or
the 18th. Later we will have the State
FAIR Then, too, the farmers in different
sections of the State are holding meeting.